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institution of the State, and in such investigation it has power 

 to send for persons or papers and to administer oaths and 

 affirmations. 



The board is also charged with the supervision of official 

 outdoor poor relief ; is agent of the State in the supervision 

 of all orphans' homes and associations supported in whole or 

 in part from public funds; visits all institutions caring for 

 neglected or dependent children; passes upon the fitness of 

 associations proposing to incorporate for the purpose of car- 

 ing for such children; and licenses maternity hospitals and 

 all child-caring institutions. The board appoints a paid secre- 

 tary who is also ex officio member of the State Board of 

 Truancy. 



The powers of the board are entirely supervisory or, as 

 that term is usually understood, advisory. It has no power 

 to interfere in any way with the management of the institu- 

 tions. The only executive power the board possesses is in 

 passing upon the incorporation of charitable organizations, 

 licensing certain classes of organizations, and passing upon 

 plans for jails and lock-ups. 



Indiana also has county boards of charity which report to 

 the State board and greatly supplement its work. This is 

 peculiar to States having well organized county systems, and 

 is not, generally, an essential element of the supervisory sys- 

 tem as a whole. 



The success of the Indiana board or system lies primarily 

 in the personnel of the board. During nearly every year of 

 its existence the board has had among its members men not 

 only experts in the charity work of their own State, but 

 men who have had national reputations in charity work. The 

 board has been particularly fortunate in the three men who 

 have acted as its secretaries since it was created.^* 



The Administrative Type — lowa.^^ Iowa has a single cen- 

 tralized Board of Control, of three members appointed by the 

 governor, each of whom receives a salary of $3,000 per year. 

 The board has full charge over all State charitable institu- 

 tions, appointing the superintendents and fixing all salaries. 



^* Alexander Johnson, Ernest P. Bicknell, and Amos W. Butler. See National Con- 

 ference of Charities and Corrections Proceedings, 1901, pp. 157, 158 ; 1902, p. 313 ; Survey, 

 April 29, 1916, p. 119. 



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